Quantifying the Roman Economy

Methods and Problems
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-19-956259-6
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 661 g

This collection of essays is the first volume in a new series, Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy. Edited by the series editors, it focuses on the economic performance of the Roman empire, analysing the extent to which Roman political domination of the Mediterranean and north-west Europe created the conditions for the integration of agriculture, production, trade, and commerce across the regions of the empire. Using the evidence of both documents and archaeology, the contributors suggest how we can derive a quantified account of economic growth and contraction in the period of the empire's greatest extent and prosperity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bowman, Alan

Wilson, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Römische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Klassische Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Alan Bowman and Andrew Wilson: Introduction. Quantifying the Roman economy: integration, growth, decline?

- I. Urbanization

- 2: Elio Lo Cascio: Urbanization as a proxy of demographic and economic growth

- 3: Roger Bagnall: Response to Elio Lo Cascio

- II. Field survey and demography

- 4: Willem Jongman: Archaeology, demography, and Roman economic growth

- 5: Elizabeth Fentress: Peopling the countryside: Roman demography in the Albegna Valley and Jerba

- 6: David Mattingly: Peopling ancient landscapes: potential and problems

- III. Agriculture

- 7: Alan Bowman: Quantifying Egyptian agriculture

- 8: Roger Bagnall: Response to Alan Bowman

- IV. Trade

- 9: Andrew Wilson: Approaches to quantifying Roman trade

- 10: Michael Fulford: Approaches to quantifying Roman trade: response

- 11: William Harris: A comment on Andrew Wilson: 'Approaches to quantifying Roman trade'

- V. Coinage

- 12: Bruce Hitchner: Coinage and metal supply

- 13: Matthew Ponting: Roman silver coinage: mints, metallurgy, and production

- 14: Chris Howgego: Some numismatic approaches to quantifying the Roman economy

- VI. Prices, earnings and standards of living

- 15: Dominic Rathbone: Earnings and costs: living standards and the Roman economy

- 16: Bob Allen: How prosperous were the Romans?

- 17: Walter Scheidel: New ways of studying incomes in the Roman economy

Über Autor(innen)

Alan Bowman is Camden Professor of Ancient History, University of Oxford.

Andrew Wilson is Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire, Universiy of Oxford.